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December 7, 2012

Clinton, Russian FM Meet with U.N. Envoy on Syria 
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Amidst the Obama administration's increased focus on Syria, Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton met with U.N. Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for talks in Ireland Thursday
night. The New York Times is reporting Brahimi has begun mounting a
diplomatic push for an agreement within Syria that would lead to the
ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. After Thursday's meeting,
Brahimi disclosed few details but said the talks were productive.

Lakhar Brahimi: "I am discussing the situation with all the countries
that I call that have influence and interest or both, and definitely
this is the case for Russia and the United States. We haven't taken any
sensational decisions, but I think we have agreed that the situation is
bad, and we have agreed that we must continue to work together to see
how we can find creative ways of bringing this problem under control and
hopefully starting to solve it."

 

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